Further Down the Spiral
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| Remix album by Nine Inch Nails | |||||
| Released | June 1, 1995 | ||||
| Recorded | 1994–95 | ||||
| Studio | Unique Studios (New York City) | ||||
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| Length | 63:56 68:59 (V2) |
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Further Down the Spiral is the first remix album by American industrial rock album Nine Inch Nails, released on June 1, 1995. It is the companion remix disc to The Downward Spiral. The album contains two editions, one denoted as Halo 10 (released in the United States and in the United Kingdom on the morning of release, to be pulled and replaced with Halo 10 V2 by lunch time) the other as Halo 10 V2 (released in Japan, Australia, and the UK), each containing a different set of tracks with a large degree of overlap between the two.
The album was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on June 26, 1996, denoting sales in excess of 500,000 copies in the US.Further Down the Spiral showed a more varied and experimental point of view to the original and boasted many high-profile remixers and contributors including Aphex Twin, J. G. Thirlwell, Rick Rubin with Dave Navarro and Coil with Danny Hyde.
The discs include remixes of "Mr. Self Destruct", "Piggy", "Hurt", "Eraser", "The Downward Spiral", "Heresy", "Reptile", and "Ruiner" as well as two original compositions by Aphex Twin.
Coil contributed more remixes than any of the other participating artists with a total of four tracks—"The Downward Spiral (The Bottom)", "Eraser (Denial; Realization)", "Eraser (Polite)", and "Erased, Over, Out". Jim Thirlwell is the second-most featured artist with three contributions - "Self Destruction, Part Two", "Self Destruction, Part Three", and "Self Destruction, Final".
Aphex Twin's two contributions to Further Down the Spiral are not remixes but rather new works using samples from the originals composed specifically for the album. Aphex Twin is the performance moniker of British electronic musician Richard D. James, who was quoted about his various "remixes" as saying "I never heard the originals, I still haven't. I don't want to either, or my remixes for that matter." Both tracks would later appear in shortened form on Aphex Twin's 2003 compilation 26 Mixes for Cash. "At the Heart of It All" shares its name with a Coil piece from their 1984 LP Scatology.
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